The first time I went to Venice, Italy, I didn’t take a gondola ride. It seemed like a rip-off, and we took a private water taxi on the...

I must admit, the one day I visited Lake Como was the only day it rained during a three-week vacation in Italy. It only rained in the...

To many, the Colosseum in Rome is probably the most famous landmark in the world. It is truly amazing and incredible that it was built in...

The Ponte Vecchio in Florence is over a thousand years old (at least in its original form which was first documented in the year 996—it's...

Did you ever wonder what the OUTSIDE of famous places look like? Sure, we all know what the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican...

There are some places in the world that don’t seem real. Most people visit three cities in Italy…Rome, Florence, and Venice. But those...

There are some places in the world that can make a person seem uneducated, or naive, or just plain unknowledgeable. One example is seeing...